Authors

Ronelle Alexander
has been on the faculty of the Department of Slavic
Languages and Literatures at the University of California,
Berkeley, since 1978, where she has held the rank of
Professor since 1987. She has also taught at the
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Yale
University, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill.

At Berkeley, she supervises the
teaching of BCS and Bulgarian, and teaches courses in
South Slavic linguistics, Yugoslav literatures, the
cultural history of Yugoslavia, and Slavic and Balkan
folklore.

She has carried out extensive field research in rural
areas of Bulgaria, Macedonia and southeastern Serbia,
primarily on dialectology but also on other aspects of
traditional culture. She has worked with folklorists and
traditional performers from various areas of the former
USSR, and is the co-founder of the Society of Living
Traditions.
See webpage: http://works.bepress.com/ronelle_alexander

in
press(with
Vladimir Zhobov). Dialects of the Slavic Languages. To
appear in The
Handbook of Dialectology, ed, C. Boberg, J.
Nerbonne, and D. Watt. Hoboken: Wiley-Blackwell.

2013

In press: Tracking the South
Slavic Epic Register. To appear in: Singers and
Tales in the 21st Century: The Legacies of Milman
Parry and Albert Lord, eds. David Elmer &
Peter McMurray. Harvard University Press.

In Honor of
Diversity: The Linguistic Riches of the Balkans
(The Kenneth E. Naylor Memorial Lecture Series in South
Slavic Linguistics 2). Department of Slavic and East
European Language and Literatures, The Ohio State
University. vi, 116 pp.

Tracking Sprachbund Boundaries: Word Order in the
Balkans. Studies in
Slavic and General Linguistics 28: 9-27.

Linguistic Sub-Structures in the Prose of Ivo Andrić.
In: C. Hawkesworth, ed., Ivo Andrić, Proceedings of a Symposium Held
at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies,
10-12 July 1984 (SSEES Occasional Papers 4), pp.
188-203.

Directions of Morphophonemic Change in Balkan Slavic:
The Accentuation of the Present Tense. In: H. Birnbaum,
ed., American
Contributions to the Ninth International Congress of
Slavists, vol. 1 (Columbus), pp. 9-49.

Zagreb: From 1972 to 1990 she
lived in Zagreb where she worked as a translator and
coordinated American study-abroad programs for Macalester
College and the ACM-GLCA consortia at the Zagreb Faculty
of Philosophy.

Teaching: Bosnian, Croatian,
and Serbian language at the Harvard Slavic Department
(1994 - 2005) and the Critical Languages Institute at ASU
(summer, 2012); a course on the practice and theory of
translation at Tufts University offered in fall 2012,
spring 2014, fall 2015; language classes for children and
adults at the New England Friends of Bosnia and
Herzegovina.

Tribunal: For six years,
between 1998 and 2010, she worked in the English
Translation Unit of the War Crimes Tribunal for the former
Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands.

She is a contributing editor at
Asymptote;
vice president of the American Literary Translators
Association; a center associate at the Davis Center,
Harvard University; lives in Cambridge MA.

Tr. Ivan Slamnig. The More I Look, the More I See; The
Wounded Tank; Moving By Me; Jelenovac; I Like Places
Which Are Very Damp; Earth I; Earth II; White Sand;
Brodetto and the Cravat; It Always Used to be One Way or
t'Other. In: The
Consolation of Chaos: an Anthology of Contemporary
Croatian Poetry, 1995-2005. Miroslav Mićanović
(ed.). Special edition of Relations: Literary Magazine 1-2: 9-13.